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Freedom should support ideals

Thomas A. Starks, Lisbon Often one must ponder the ideals we collectively believe in. Freedom. Liberty. Our rights as people collectively. Our right to speak, our right to believe, our right to collectively organize a militia, our right to deny people of violence into our homes, our right to deny unreasonable arbitrary laws that would seek petty offenses to justify arrest or imprisonment, that we have a right to be tried by our peers and our property cannot be seized without compensation, that our rights dictate we should not be subjugated to cruel or unusual punishment, that it is ...

We condemn Senators vote

Landis Larson, ND AFL-CIO President , Bismarck Rail workers are the backbone of our supply chain and they deserve good wages, fair treatment and important health protections like paid sick leave. We need them to be healthy and confident they can do their jobs to the best of their ability to keep our economy moving. Rail companies have made record profits at the expense of these workers and their families through chronic understaffing and unfair scheduling practices. The North Dakota AFL-CIO condemns Senator Hoeven’s and Senator Cramer’s vote against seven days sick leave for ...

State needs to four-lane Highway 52

Walter Piehl, Minot A big shout out to Bucky Anderson for bringing forth the inadequacy of the N.D. Highway Department’s solution to the outrageous traffic issues on Highway 52 at a recent Ward County Commission meeting. A second shout out to the Minot Daily News and Jill Schramm for choosing it as the front page headline article. The Ward County Highway Department has shocking statistics of how much traffic, accidents and inadequacies there are on the stretch of road between Minot and Velva. And, those statistics are years old. They show the total short-sightedness of the ...

School behaviors may be symptoms

Carl Young, Bismarck We need to engage in conversation and action regarding “behaviors” in school. A recent Fargo Forum letter to the editor from Jerry Barnum states in part, “Rigorous behavior standards enforced with meaningful consequences will remove the perpetrators and restore order.” I think that it is more than that. We need to understand that some “behaviors” aren’t behaviors at all, rather they are symptoms. Now before you cry foul, hear me out. One in twenty children are affected by a condition called Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). In our ...

Minot native became hero to many

Dale Olson West Fargo Lt. Colonel Paul Pederson A hero is selfless, a genuinely good person, and someone who gets the undivided attention of all of us and causes change. Someone willing to risk their own life to save another. My definition is looking through the eyes of a child and young adult, middle aged, and senior citizen, at a man who truly was a great person who recently passed away in Minot and was memorialized at Zion Lutheran church! Absolutely a “legend” and “hero” to many who knew of his exploits! A Minot High School all-state basketball performer ...

Lutheran response to gender theorists, gnosticism

Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard Minot As a person of faith, I am responding to the recent letter to the editor titled, “People of faith respond to ‘truth matters.’” First, it is crucial to acknowledge that there has been an ongoing war on “words” in Western Civilization for quite some time.  For example, and brevity’s sake, consider pregnancies.  Ponder the subtle implications of the last several decades of describing a baby in the womb as a “fetus” versus calling it a “human being.” Furthermore,  contemplate how more recently, the definition of marriage ...